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Common lubes for SB 10L and Bridgeport 2J?

Jeff D.

Aluminum
Joined
Jul 11, 2007
Location
Spanish Fort, AL
I'm trying to determine if there are some lubricants that I can use for both my South Bend 10L and Bridgeport 2J.

For the ways, it looks like Vactra #2 will work for both.

The manual that I have for my Bridgeport calls out "light spindle oil" for the spindle bearings, where the specs I have for the South Bend spindle call out ISO 22 machine oil. Will the Mobil Velocite #10 work for both?

For the spindle downfeed on the mill, the manual calls out "Vactra Heavy/Medium". For the gearbox and apron on the SB, specs say 32 ISO. Will Mobil DTE 24 work in both applications?

If these are inappropriate choices, are there others that will work better?

Thanks,

Jeff
 
Jeff

Following advice from the Castrol technical people I use Magna BD 68 for the way / heavy oil duties and Hyspin AWS 32 for the light oil jobs on my Bridgeport and SouthBend Heavy 10.
Seem to work just fine to me. However it may be relevant that both Castrol oils are multiple duty products. Magna is a way and bearing oil whilst Hyspin is a compressor and hydraulic oil. The Magna is also great as an oil-can oil for all those little squeaky door etc. jobs around the place. Thin enough to get in but hangs around much better than the usual thinned to the wazoo household stuff. Both are very low niff and fairly pleasant "there is oil around" one at that. One thing is for sure I'm not going back to old line specialist way oils after the Magna. Yes true way oils do have more tackifier and hang on really well but the Magna sticks good enough and you can wipe clean for fresh application from scratch when needed. Old line proper way oils are very difficult to clean off completely without solvents making me suspicious that fine debris can get left on the ways.

Clive
 








 
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